Police calls: Homeowner lights toilet paper in tree on fire

Wednesday

Wayne County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of South Carr Road and Hackett Road early Saturday morning after a passerby called to report flaming toilet paper in a tree.

A man driving past the home on Carr north of Hackett called around 12:30 a.m. Saturday and said that someone had teepeed a tree, and then lit the toilet paper on fire. Deputies spoke with the homeowner, who told them they had set the toilet paper on fire themselves in order to remove it from their tree.

The sheriff’s office turned the call over to the Apple Creek Fire Department.